Archive for March 10th, 2011
The return of the Guillemots with The Basket – first single from long-awaited third album Walk The River – heralds a blast of extreme weirdness down in the woods from Tom Kingsley, his first video in a while too, after impressing so much with Darwin Deez and others last year. It’s a very psychedelic camping [...]
Thursday, 10. March 2011 | 1 comment »
Tags: CJ Hassay, Colonel Blimp, Geffen/Polydor, Gullemots, The Basket, Tom Kingsley
Michel Gondry, recently named President of the Short Film and Cinéfondation at the Cannes Film Festival this year, has a new video for folk-pop supertrio The Living Sisters, which really feels like a throwback to the old days. It’s a three-panelled entertainment of interconnecting multiple disaster, from house fire to plummeting plane to earthquake, involving [...]
Thursday, 10. March 2011 | 2 comments »
Tags: BUG, BUG 24, How Are You Doing?, Michel Gondry, Partizan, The Living Sisters, Vanguard
People used to forge masterpieces – and Dougal Wilson’s vid for Benni Benassi’s Satisfaction happens to be a masterpiece of Noughties dance vids. So now here’s Raf Reyntjes lovingly-crafted recreation of the video – with an important difference. This time round, the girls are a bit older. Which makes it very funny – or hard [...]
Thursday, 10. March 2011 | Comments Off
Tags: Benni Benassi, Dougal Wilson, Equal PayDay, Mortier Brigade, Rabbit Content, Raf Reyntjes, Satisfaction
Shot on the Canon 5D and 7D, Aoife McArdle’s adventurous promo for Little Comets’ Joanna is part-music video and part-social experiment. Hundreds of ‘Joannas’ were tracked down around the UK by McArdle and a small production team looking for the most interesting participants. The week-long shoot aimed to show off the girls’ individual vitality – [...]
Thursday, 10. March 2011 | 1 comment »
Tags: Agile Films, All On Red, Aoife McArdle, Joanna, Little Comets
Emil Nava’s highly stylised promo for Yasmin’s Finish Line depicts the breakup of a relationship, with a surreal twist – Yasmin becomes ultimately untouchable. Nava’s video is pure high fashion and, some might say, Yasmin is not looking too shabby… Yasmin Finish Line (Ministry of Sound) Director: Emil Nava Executive Producer: Hannah Clark Producer: Tom [...]
Thursday, 10. March 2011 | Comments Off
Tags: Caroline Clayton, Emil Nava, Finish Line, Ministry of Sound, Pulse Films, Yasmin